Jeffrey Phillips & Alex Verjovsky, Authors, OUTMANEUVER: OutThink, don’t OutSpend As a CEO you know how much pressure there is to perform. You want to hit the ground running, but you cannot afford to make too many mistakes. Your board and your investors expect growth. Customers demand new products and exemplary service. As a CEO I grew a […]
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Peter Browning and William Sparks Is it better to separate the role of chairman from that of CEO? Does the separation really enhance board governance and effectiveness? The answer to these questions may lie in a lack of understanding of how boards function. Do some Chairman/CEOs or CEOs try to control and manage their boards
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Email is the scourge of our modern times. When I co-invented host-based email with my former partner Bob Green in 1984 it was because we found the telephone interrupted our creative processes. We wanted a way to communicate over mundane tasks, like when and where we would meet for lunch next week, without having to
The big day was approaching. By “big day” I don’t mean election day (which can’t come soon enough) or a wedding day, I mean the Super Bowl—THE big day for sports fans. To be clear, I am not a sports aficionado but even people like me watch the Super Bowl. Not because of the game
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Wolfgang Koester, CEO & Co-founder, FiREapps It has been my experience that the most important factor in a CEO’s success is whether he or she is willing and able to get down in the trenches with employees. Like the coach who is still out on the field with the team. There is an adage that great leaders don’t
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As the head of an organization, you can either take the high road or the low road with your leadership. A leader who is concerned with fixing and resolving a situation in the present moment with little or no regard for developing people and relationships is taking the low road. High road leaders, on the
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Does your organization’s professional development program offer time management courses? How is that going for you? If you’re like a lot of businesses, you’re probably footing a rather expensive bill for such training programs, with the expectation that employees will return with skills for working more efficiently and productively. Unfortunately, if you’re also like a
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Evan Hackel, CEO, Tortal Training & Ingage Consulting I am a CEO, and I have worked with many other top executives during my career. So I speak from experience when I say that this could be the biggest day-to-day frustration many leaders face . . . “I tell people what to do, but they don’t
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Imagine this. You get hit by a huge order that must be delivered at three times your normal speed. How do you mobilize to make it happen? This is not just a scenario it is a real-life situation that my company experienced recently. Many companies would have simply thrown up their hands and said no.
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Alan Stein, Vice President, Marketing Services & Product Development, AlliedBarton Security Services A catastrophic event will put your property and customers at risk, and can be detrimental to your brand. Emergencies, disasters and other crises don’t occur at convenient times. Whether dealing with hurricanes, floods or blizzards, or widespread serious illness such as a viral outbreak or acts
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